morning

i'm about to leave to go sub for Bentley high school, social studies and biology. should be fun!
after that i am headed down to aa to help jerm move some of his stuff, stay the night, and see him graduate tomorrow, yay! :) mom & dad are coming down too of course, and the groves for gary, so it will be a nice time!
i also sit sat night, and sunday evening.
and had a meet-and greet with a family in linden, as a possible summer job. my sweet nanny job this summer? eliminated. apparently she took a "buy out" which means she will be home this summer. not only am i bummed that my job was eliminated, i'm pissed that i went thru all of this work to get this job with this family, so early before summer, and she took a buy out; which i assume she knew the possibility of a buy out may occur, so why waste time and effort of hers and mine, i do not know. so hopefully this other family works out!

fun experiences

I had so much fun playing soccer yesterday! I was the only girl (all the teams are co-ed; they must have one girl at least on the team & playing), and the youngest, but I think I did pretty great! I'm learning the lingo, not very sore today (hip flexors & back muscles only), and had so much fun. Plus it's great to play another co-ed sport with Ry; we had so much fun playing ultimate frisbee in the fall, but it was a drive to Troy & back each sunday. all the games are in grand blanc, so they are 10 minutes away, which is much nicer. :) Yay for learning and playing sports as adults!

random

today i began to get used to ry's motorcycle. i sold mine last summer, b/c it was too big for me; among other things i could not stand flat footed. ry's is smaller, a 550 (rather than a 650), and i plan on using it to commute to owosso. so i'm getting used to it today. but it randomly will stall/die, and take 10-15 minutes before it will restart. not good. ry found one on craigslist just like his for $500, so we are going to go try it out later this week!
today on our way back to our apt, we saw a woman get attacked by a dog, who lives at a house across the street from our building. she was bleeding on her hand and back but seemed fine and wasnt angry. another car car of people also stopped who saw it, and rang the bell to alert people who lived there of the problem. ryan encouraged the woman to file a report-- since we run by there too, as well as run, walk rem, ect, i'm on the lookout.
rys soccer league started today, and i went to watch him play. he did great, and their team asked me to join! i've never played, but it looks fun & most of the peopel on the league have limited expierence or haven't played in many years, so it should be fun! the league plays saturday and sunday evenings, so i'll be able to make most of the games except when i'm babysitting. it should be fun-- i have to go buy cleats tomorrow (and refresh myself on the rules of the game!). :)

its good to be home

after a week away, its good to be home. i had fun with balto, but being in a big house by yourself with just a dog and two cats is a bit lonely! plus balto is not much of a snuggler like remington; he's more of a licker. as in, loves licking my lotion off of me. i don't enjoy that!
my truck is fixed; turns out it was just my back shackle that was broken, not the spring, ect. it only cost $30 to have it fixed, yay! so the truck continues; lets hope it makes it until i'm done with nursing school!
ryan and i have been doing lots of plans & figuring out crafty ways to keep costs lowered. for example, we planned on doing simple invites/rsvp's; the kind you buy at the store and can print them on the computer. usually they are $30 for a box of 50 invites/rsvp with envelopes. i found a nice simple style at joann fabric clearanced out for $7.97 a box of 50; a HUGE savings! so i bought 5 boxes (all we will need), and that is taken care of. plus the style is nice and clean; no doves or rings or whatever in sight. :) and mom rouse said we can print them all on their computer, which is great!
Ryanbegan for training for a Urbanathlon (http://www.menshealthurbanathlon.com/) today, which is in Chicago this fall; anyone else interested in doing so check it out! it has running and strength training. i'm excited for it, and i may train for it too.... i just don't need as much time to "get into shape." but i am glad he is doing it & it gives him a goal to work on!
i'm knee-deep in patho & micro this semester. i am really enjoying patho; learning about all the diseases and whatnot is really interesting! micro, not so much. plus i don't enjoy using microscopes. good thing baker is on terms & i only have 8 more weeks to go! :)

updates

friday i went to see Riverdance at the Wharton with my grandparents, and it was great!! i'm glad i was able to see it before they stop touring this year.
i'm dogsitting in okemos all week until saturday, which has been great so far! plus, their neighbors asked me to watch their cat for today-friday while they are out of town. :) bonus!
working on wedding planning/organization, and all of that great stuff. i went and turned in our signed contract & the deposit yesterday, so the "where" is alll set! (hint hint to those out of staters!)
tomorrow my uncle kevin is going to fix the back springs on my truck, so they do not rip a huge hole into the rusty bed causing more damage. plus he's doing the labor for free, horray!
time to get to class though-- more in a few days!

We Set a Date!!

We Set a Date!!
June 12, 2009 at Eagle Eye Golf Course. (That's a FRIDAY). It will be in the evening (reception and ceremony). We're going to be married in the Grand Garden outside, and then the reception will be in the Lakepoint Room (or MR if you've worked there!). We set the date yesterday, when Ry, my mom, and I went. This is all very exciting and scary, and it will be a nice change to be at an event there, and not be working it.
Wahoo!

moving woes

so in a month we will be moving. to the building next to us. 50 feet away. WHY, you ask would be want to do that? because we are being FORCED TO. when we moved in we told the person we would be getting a dog; they said no problem, just to tell them when we did. two persons across the hall also have dogs, so we thought, no biggie.
when we returned from AZ we had a notice on our door that we had 24 hours to get him out; that sign was dated for the friday before. we went in steaming tuesday to the office, explaining we were told that we could have one; turns out the signing agent we dealt with was fired since she didn't know how to do her job, and did not put us in a "dog building"-- could've fooled us since there are other dogs in there!! arguing and whatnot for days with these people, and apparently the other dogs are getting evicted and we have to move to the "dog" building, right next door. and they wont make our building a "dog" building.
i am PISSED. i do NOT want to move, let alone just to the next building. so in may, we will be moving. i am still going back in to work out the painting situation; they said we could give the painters the colors we have and they would paint them as they prep the apt for us, but we don't have that much paint left so we'll have to buy more, & they told ry we will have to "prime" our apt before we move out, which will NOT be doing, since in our lease it says we do not have to repaint the walls before we move out.
it is a very very VERY shitty situation, not to mention a huge hassle. and i will be making sure those other dogs will get kicked out as well.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.